Visceral Screens

Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema (livre en anglais)

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de Allan Cameron

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Genre > Horreur

Mots Clés

horreur, corps

Année d'édition

2023

Editeur

Edinburgh University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 216 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-3995-1124-7

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation
• Demonstrates how a range of different horror subgenres depict bodily mediation, from the vampire’s association with optical effects to the use of editing, colour and sound to blur or fragment bodily forms
• Argues that horror films do not merely reflect ‘anxieties’ regarding contemporary media technologies, but rather produce distinctive conceptual framings of the body and/as media
• Covers a wide range of subgenres spanning the history of the genre, addressing classic horror films alongside popular and innovative contemporary works
• Balances theoretical engagement with readability, and incorporates close readings of specific films

Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie’s gory disintegration to the shaky visuals of ‘found footage’ horror, and from the vampire’s absent reflection to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens investigates how they have rendered the human form as a media artefact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. Conducting their own anatomies of the screen, cutting into the matter of cinema, horror films revel in the breakdown of frames, patterns and figures, undermining subjectivity and meaning.

À propos de l'auteur :
Allan Cameron Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland

Revue de Presse :
Visceral Screens argues eloquently for horror’s centrality to essential debates in contemporary film and media studies theory. By framing horror beyond conventional notions of cautionary or anxious relations to media technologies, Allan Cameron presents a fascinating new account of horror as an ‘intermediate’ genre: between meanings encompassing bodies, images, and image-bodies.– Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh

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